March 16, 2018 ~ Lenten Reflections (English & Espanol)

“Let us beset the just one because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, reproaches us for transgressions of the law.”

How often do we find ourselves acting that way, perhaps unconsciously! Whenever we hear the Word of God and feel a correction coming our way, we immediately think: “God is so good and loves me just as I am; He loves me, so I don’t really need to change. Those who really need to change are the others, those who steal, or who are unfaithful. I’m doing just fine.”

Another obstacle: “I am that way because I have sufffered so much in this life; other people have made me the way I am; circumstances have conspired to make me this way, and I do not feel God is close to me. He’s helped others, but not me.”

Those are obstacles that we place in Jesus’ way in our lives. In the end, those obstacles end up holding us down, unable to advance towards the life that Jesus, God’s own Son, came to bring us. He came to give his LIFE in order to free us from traps of sin, from our complexes and our justifications – and also from our pride.

Let us strive, therefore, for the reward that comes from living a blameless life.